I couldn't see a pre-existing thread for this, but it's one I'm very much looking forward to so thought I'd start one for this - Julian Gollop has just announced the launch has been pushed back three months to September, so the game can be further polished:

It does look excellent. Hearing him describe the systems in detail and his ambitions for it at EGX was very interesting. He said it had always been his ideal to have all of the individual missions feed into one huge overworld simulation akin to a Civilization game.